Our Beliefs

The Evangelical Covenant Church is rooted in historic Protestant Christianity and the revival movements which swept Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and flourished in North America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Therefore, we hold several affirmations.

We affirm the centrality of the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, as the authoritative Word of God and the only perfect rule for faith, doctrine, and conduct.

We affirm the necessity of the new birth for entrance into God’s Kingdom and we stress the importance of continued growth in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We affirm the Church as a fellowship of believers. Membership in the Church is based on confession of personal faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.

We affirm the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit empowers the life of the Church, guides its mission, and supplies gifts needed by the Church and its members to exalt Christ.

We affirm the reality of freedom in Christ. Through faith in Christ we are free from the power of sin and enabled to respond to God’s grace with lives of obedience and faith. We do not insist on uniformity in all theological views, but we do resist individualism which disregards the teaching of Scripture, the historic creeds of the Church, and consistent Christian tradition.

We also believe that part of living in the freedom which Christ provides includes fulfilling God’s call to live as responsible members of the Church.